10.21.2011

By Their Fruits of the Loom Ye Shall Know Them. But if you don't, there's Andy, Debbie, Grace, Patti, The Smothers Brothers, Meat Loaf, Glenn Close (loving mutts even back then!), Legs McNeil, Suzy Chaffee, and a bunch of Broadway people, Punks, Penthouse Pets, and New York Rangers. All wearing their favorite t-shirts and shot by Jean-Paul Goude for Penthouse Magazine, July 1979. Gotta love Karla de Vito's classic "If it ain't Stiff...", but I think my favorite is Debbie Harry's Glaser-esque, Chwastian "Telluride Film Festival".

10.18.2011

Slim pickins at a yard sale in Marathon, but you can never go wrong with E.H. Shepard and A.A. Milne.- in this case the 1957 book The World of Pooh- The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner.With new illustrations in full color.
If you didn't know the back story of these furry friends, here's the back cover:

10.15.2011

Top: Richard Serra's To Encircle Base Plate Hexagram, Right Angles Inverted (1970), in its original middle-of-the-street location in The Bronx, where it looked a million times cooler than its current location at the St. Louis Art Museum. And I know it probably has deeper meaning, but doesn't it look like an Oldenburgian King Kong-sized manhole? How wild would it be if it opened up and all the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Balloons emerged from it?

Above, the Serra Suburban, from somewhere on the Internet a few years ago.

10.14.2011

From Mad magazine, January 1974. As with Al Jaffee's "If Kids Designed Their Own Xmas Toys", this is one of his genius spreads that I saw in my formative years and always think about when some new project comes along. It was reprinted in a Mad Special in 1980, but other than that I don't think it's anywhere, and it's too awesome not to share.

10.08.2011

Collages we made recently for a client. Cut and pasted from mostly pre-1980 photo magazines, Playboys, Scientific American, American Home, Zoom, Mad, Abitare, ...with some I-D and The Face thrown in for good measure. And a nod to Superstudio in the one below.

10.06.2011

In 1985 Steve Jobs hired Paul Rand to create the identity of his new company, NeXT.

Above is a page of final logos- black boxed and pitched 28º - from Rand's presentation package. The project is showcased- with thoughts, reasoning, diagrams, and ultimate choices- in his book Design, Form, and Chaos.

10.02.2011

Quite an impressive list of judges for this anti-war poster competition from a 1968 Avant Garde magazine. Could you imagine winning?
A couple issues later the winning posters were shown, but nothing was as impressive as Herb Lubalin's announcement. (above)